Thailand: Speeding motorists beware, traffic tickets will come to their homes soon

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Speeding motorists beware, traffic tickets will come to their homes soon

BANGKOK: -- Motorists who broke speed limits while driving along the Friendship Highway passing Khon Kaen province during the New Year festival are told to get ready for traffic tickets to be sent to their homes within a few weeks.

Speeding cameras along the highway’s 14-kilometre stretch section in Khon Kaen have recorded more than 300 speeding motorists and the highway police are now checking licence numbers and owners’ names before mailing to them soon.

Highway police inspector Pol Capt Pornchai Sangsila of the 4th subdivision of the Highway Police Division said speeding cameras deployed on the Friendship Highway have recorded more than 300 speeding motorists, particularly on the 14-km straight stretch outside Khon Kaen municipal area where speed limit is fixed at 120 kilometres an hour.

He said highway police are now checking licence numbers of the vehicles if they match with vehicles registered and names of owners.

The process will take a few weeks and will later send traffic tickets to speeding motorists to pay fines, he said.

He said speeding cameras were deployed at accident risk locations of the highway, particularly at U-turns in Ban Phai district of Khon Kaen and at straight stretch of the highway where speed limit is 120 kilometres for outside municipal area and 100 kilometres for inside municipal area.

He said speed limit of 100 kilometres for driving in municipal area was necessary to prevent accidents and save lives as it is densely populated areas with heavy traffic.

He also said that this year people traveled on private cars more than on public transport because of cheaper oil prices, thus causing traffic jams for several kilometres long.

He said the highway police on Friendship Highway passing Khon Kaen could clear traffic jams to normal flow at 7 pm, but this year it took them until 2 am to clear traffic jams.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/speeding-motorists-beware-traffic-tickets-will-come-homes-soon

-- Thai PBS 2015-01-07

[Costas2008]

I thought the speed limit is 90KM per hour.

When did it go up?

Anyway, good to see they are going to post the tickets.

As about getting paid that's another story.

And nobody will enforce it as nobody did in the past.

Tickets can be found in the dustbins as people around here usually do.

[Somtamnication]

Note to self: buy plastic overlay for my tags.

[joepattaya1961]

300 tickets........on how many passers-by?

Jeeezzz......don't they have better things to do?

Well, out approx. 250 out of the 300 tickets will end up at lease-companies, banks, rental-companies or loan-sharks.....

[steve187]

if the ticket gets put on the registration information, they will not be able to re-tax vehicle

[slapout]

a copy of speeding fine can/is sent to provincial liscense bureau, where liscense was issued and if not paid the rewewal/payment of yearly tax (new sticker) will be with held until payment is made.

this is what wife was told when she went to pay fine at police station, which was speeding via camera and notification sent by post to her

Edited January 7, 2015 by slapout

[chotthee]

if the ticket gets put on the registration information, they will not be able to re-tax vehicle

So, stop paying road tax as well.

[jaltsc]

"Speeding cameras along the highway’s 14-kilometre stretch section in Khon Kaen have recorded more than 300 speeding motorists and the highway police are now checking licence numbers and owners’ names before mailing to them soon."

Of course, that won't apply to all the vehicles I see without license plates. Not only the usual dump trucks, but high price SUVs and Mercedes sedans. Would work better to set up a check point down the road and stopping the offending driver. However, that would necessitate the police getting out of their offices or tents and doing their jobs. Then again, if the fine is high enough, the police could develop an increased taste for tea.

Edited January 7, 2015 by jaltsc

[Commerce]

Friendship Highway?

I have an idea for the channel tunnel.

[smutcakes]

I got a ticket in the post last year, so they have had the capacity to do it for a year at least.

Speed limits on highways have in places been 120 kmh for years.

If they actually did this properly they would make an absolute fortune at 500 baht a pop.

Edited January 7, 2015 by smutcakes

[ChrisY1]

Note to self: buy plastic overlay for my tags.

Not that I drive that fast very often......but the plastic covers work a treat.....banned almost everywhere else....but the RTP will never work out why the licence plate numbers aren't showing!

[Commerce]

Would somebody enlighten me about these plastic plate covers, please?

I don't drive that often, but my wife now has a taste for speed, driving to work everyday.

[NoBrainer]

Where can you pick up those covers to keep the dirt off your tags?

I find that the cameras on the Motorway only seem to work if you are going between 130 to 160Kph.

If you go 180 or higher I think the timing is off and they are too slow to get a clear shot.

I have had half a dozen in the last 18 months from the same spot, but always says around 140-155Kph on the

letter.

Never got one yet when passing it at much higher speed.

[samtam]

Are Speed Cameras, (as opposed to speeding cameras) a novelty in Thailand? Reading this Thai PBS would seem to imply they are.

[ratcatcher]

Where can you pick up those covers to keep the dirt off your tags?

I find that the cameras on the Motorway only seem to work if you are going between 130 to 160Kph.

If you go 180 or higher I think the timing is off and they are too slow to get a clear shot.

I have had half a dozen in the last 18 months from the same spot, but always says around 140-155Kph on the

letter.

Never got one yet when passing it at much higher speed.

"Where can you pick up those covers to keep the dirt off your tags?"

Why not just let your tags/plates get dirty?

I am sure there is a by-law somewhere on the books that says it is actually the duty of the vehicle owner to maintain license plates in a visible and readable condition, however, I have noticed quite a few of the Toyota commuter vans with yellow plates have allowed the plates to become faded to the point of being illegible.

Perhaps your question referred to these, but I have no need for them and not sure if available here, but probably easy enough to make by yourself.

https://www.google.co.th/search?q=plastic+license+plate+covers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=qcysVPmAIpSLuATToILgAQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=615#imgdii=_&imgrc=GJwHi9jl8K82XM%253A%3BJS8aLGb-UfwJAM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.dantegts.com%252Fimages%252Fdetailed%252F0%252F60520_-_Smoked_Bubble_Black_Trim_Plastic.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.dantegts.com%252Fen%252Flicense-plate-frame-en-2-3.html%3B1140%3B760

[chainarong]

Yes, the traffic tickets are going to be sent to homes soon , then What????

[dean008]

Thank God my Nissan starts to shake at 100kmph, I dream about the day I could get a ticket!

[akampa]

smutcakes, on 07 Jan 2015 - 12:15, said:

I got a ticket in the post last year, so they have had the capacity to do it for a year at least.

Speed limits on highways have in places been 120 kmh for years.

If they actually did this properly they would make an absolute fortune at 500 baht a pop.

Had a speeding ticket 2 years ago on my way down to cha am got it in the post 450baht nice pic of the car

[gemini81]

Note to self: buy plastic overlay for my tags.

Marry a rich girl & you don't need any plates at all!!

[ezzra]

Do not rejoice too soon Pol Capt Pornchai Sangsila of the 4th subdivision, half of them are probably

fake license plates and the other half don't live at that address any longer... lucky if you be able

to collect on 10% of the 300....

Edited January 7, 2015 by ezzra

[horsewell]

I've seen a lot of people put things over their plates especially on bikes. I couldn't imagine going over the speed limit or even keeping up with it most of the time. The road surface, conditions and other traffic are just way to unpredictable to risk high speed most of the time. Also, partner on the back saying I'm going too fast already! How things are set up there will be a lot of random addresses getting fines in the post to people who don't live there, either ever or anymore. They may as well add it to the next years registration, that would be easier and probably just as affective. Mind you the police would have a good stream of revenue for unregistered vehicles after that.

[Johnnie99]

Thank goodness!

Tickets are much more likely to be paid if sent to the offender's homes.

No chance at all of being ignored now. Brilliant plan.

[Johnnie99]

Where can you pick up those covers to keep the dirt off your tags?

I find that the cameras on the Motorway only seem to work if you are going between 130 to 160Kph.

If you go 180 or higher I think the timing is off and they are too slow to get a clear shot.

I have had half a dozen in the last 18 months from the same spot, but always says around 140-155Kph on the

letter.

Never got one yet when passing it at much higher speed.

NoBrainer by name, no brain by nature.

Perhaps you are deficient in some way - do you know what speed limits are for?

"... around 140-155Kph on the letter. Never got one yet when passing it at much higher speed."

Shame on you.

[ChrisY1]

Would somebody enlighten me about these plastic plate covers, please?

I don't drive that often, but my wife now has a taste for speed, driving to work everyday.

They're a licence plate protector...not sure if they're available here in Thailand.....but clear plastic works.....reflects light back to the camera...I think that's what they do anyway

[spidermike007]

I will believe this when I see it happen. The idea of anything resembling law and order and a disciplined police force is beyond my imagination. No doubt something drastic needs to be done. The roads are out of control. And the police are too.

[RigPig]

Slightly of topic (unless you want a plate that fits the plastic cover ) but I have seen a lot of places lately that make number plates. I wouldn mind getting rid of that big ugly square plate on the bike, but are they legal?

[stoli]

Tried this in California, and all of the tickets had to be thrown out. The cameras never took a picture of the driver, just the car. Just because someone owns a car does not mean they were driving it, or violating the law in any way. Innocent until proven guilty, and the car never testified against its owner.

[noahvail]

So....they're going to be sending these notices to car owners' homes....by Thailand Post? Good luck with that.

[Peterphuket]

Well, looks like as they have in Thailand also discovered the fine machine. Believe in Europe it is big, big, bussines. In Holland they have this building, only for collecting fines.

[Ceruhe]

What are the odds of them needing to draw a map of the, eh, winner of said ticket?